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★20 Aug 1920
The National Football League, the world's highest professional level of American football, was founded as the American Professional Football Association.

★21 Oct 1941
World War II: German soldiers massacred nearly 2,800 Serbs in occupied Serbia in reprisal for insurgent attacks in the Gornji Milanovac district.

★01 Jun 1942
Second World War: The crews of three Japanese Type A Kō-hyōteki-class submarines scuttled their boats and committed suicide after entering Sydney Harbour and launching a failed attack.

★08 May 1945
A parade to celebrate the end of World War II turned into a riot, followed by widespread disturbances and killings in and around Sétif, French Algeria.

★18 Mar 1959
Chinese forces began a bombardment of Sera Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet, inflicting severe destruction and killing hundreds of Buddhist monks.

★14 Sep 1960
At a conference held in Baghdad, the governments of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela founded OPEC to help unify and coordinate their petroleum policies.

★15 Aug 1975
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader of Bangladesh, and most of his family were assassinated in a military coup.

★27 Nov 1978
San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by supervisor Dan White.

★20 Nov 1979
A group of armed insurgents attacked and took over the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, declaring that one of their leaders was the Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam.

★29 Aug 1991
Italian businessman Libero Grassi was killed by the Sicilian Mafia after taking a public stand against their extortion demands.

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